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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 2162 Medical care facilities; designated support persons for persons with disabilities.
Introduced by: Kathy K.L. Tran | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Medical care facilities; persons with disabilities; designated support persons. Requires every medical care facility, as defined in the bill, to allow a person with a disability who requires assistance as a result of such disability to be accompanied by a designated support person who will provide support and assistance necessary due to the specifics of the person’s disability to the person with a disability during an admission to such medical care facility. The bill (i) defines "person with a disability" and "designated support person"; (ii) provides that a designated support person shall not be subject to restrictions on visitation adopted by the medical care facility but may be required to comply with reasonable requirements of the medical care facility adopted to protect the health and safety of the person with a disability, the designated support person, and staff and other patients of and visitors to the medical care facility; and (iii) authorizes a medical care facility to restrict a designated support person's access to specified areas and movement on the premises of the medical care facility when such restrictions are determined by the medical care facility to be reasonably necessary to protect the health and safety of the person with a disability, the designated support person, and staff and other patients of and visitors to the medical care facility. The bill requires every medical care facility to adopt protocols to inform patients of their right to be accompanied by a designated support person, and to develop and make available to persons with disabilities written information regarding the right of a person with a disability to be accompanied by a designated support person and policies related thereto. The bill contains an emergency clause and directs the Board of Health to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102505D pdf | impact statement
- 01/26/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103593D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21103593D-EH1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/25/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2162ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/18/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- House amendments not adopted
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102505D
- 01/12/21 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/23/21 House: Assigned HWI sub: Health
- 01/26/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/21 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (18-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103593D-H1
- 01/28/21 House: Read first time
- 01/29/21 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/01/21 House: Read second time
- 02/01/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21103593D-H1
- 02/01/21 House: Emergency clause added
- 02/01/21 House: Amendments by Delegate Tran from 1/29 withdrawn
- 02/01/21 House: Amendment by Delegate Tran agreed to
- 02/01/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB2162EH1
- 02/01/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21103593D-EH1
- 02/02/21 House: Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/21 House: VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/03/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/21 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health
- 02/18/21 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/21 Senate: Read third time
- 02/22/21 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/21 House: Enrolled
- 02/25/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2162ER)
- 02/25/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/26/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/01/21 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- 03/01/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/18/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 220 (effective 3/18/21)
- 03/18/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220)